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Elastic Kibana: CVE-2024-23446: Improper Access Control

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Severity

CVSS

(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:N)

Published

Feb 7, 2024

Added

Sep 3, 2025

Modified

Mar 25, 2026

Description

An issue was discovered by Elastic, whereby the Detection Engine Search API does not respect Document-level security (DLS) or Field-level security (FLS) when querying the .alerts-security.alerts-{space_id} indices. Users who are authorized to call this API may obtain unauthorized access to documents if their roles are configured with DLS or FLS against the aforementioned index.

Solution

elastic-kibana-upgrade-latest

References

CWE-284
CVE-2024-23446
https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2024-23446
https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-8-12-1-security-update-esa-2024-01/352686
https://www.elastic.co/community/security
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2024-20949

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